Some more explicit details on HP's answer to iPad which it calls the Slate have surfaced thanks to Engadget getting hold of a presentation slide that reveals more on the specs and confirms the $549 U.S. launch price for the base model.

Anne Applebaum, writing in Slate, raises an important paradox: Why is there a rising tide of resentment toward Ivy League elites, given the role that Ivy League institutions have played for decades in driving the engine of meritocracy and upward mobility?